ICPSR Metadata record for ABC News Reproductive Rights Poll, January 1985 ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). ABC News Reproductive Rights Poll, January 1985 ABC News Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2006-12-06 8559 doi://10.3886/ICPSR08559.v1
This survey explores in detail respondents' attitudes toward abortion. Respondents were asked whether abortions should be allowed no matter what the reason, if they should be legal, and if they should be legal in the first three months of pregnancy under a variety of different circumstances including endangerment of the woman's life, rape or incest, physical or mental danger to the mother, possible deformity in the baby, and the family's inability to afford a child. Other questions focused on recent bombings of abortion clinics, the effects of legalizing abortion, and the possible outcomes of banning it. Demographic characteristics also were recorded.
 UniverseScheme08559 ICPSR.IX abortion abortion clinics birth control family planning population policy public opinion United States 1985-01 1985-01 survey data The population of the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, aged 18 and over. Households were selected by random digit dialing. telephone interviews 1985-01 1985-01 ICPSR
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